'Concert band oddities'

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Concert band oddities - Adrian Drover, 19 Aug 03:00PM
     Re: Concert band oddities - Tony Wakefield, 19 Aug 03:45PM

Concert band oddities
Posted by Adrian Drover - 19 Aug 03:00PM (edited 19 Aug 03:07PM)
Just looking thru' Sib's template for large concert band. Placing the clarinet choir as a separate unit below the bassoons makes sense, and I could live with horns between trumpets & trombones, but I don't understand any justification at all for sandwiching harp and piano between saxes and brass. And why 'cello & string bass above percussion?

Hmm. PS. Seems the creator of this template doesn't recognise that it is practical to supply alternative transposed part in treble clef for Bb euphonium.
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Re: Concert band oddities
Posted by Tony Wakefield - 19 Aug 03:45PM
Tradition Adrian, tradition. Plus the fact that our friends across the pond more or less have their own tradtions. But I think Sibelius has it more or less right. Percussion always has been placed at the bottom.
Harp, piano, strings (apart from double bass) are relative newcomers to the concert band - mid 20th cent(?).
You could start a new trend by introducing Bagpipes.
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Concert band oddities - Adrian Drover, 19 Aug 03:00PM
     Re: Concert band oddities - Tony Wakefield, 19 Aug 03:45PM